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Community Engagement

Our Commitment to Community Engagement

The University of Chicago Medicine is committed to improving health and wellness in the 12 zip codes where our closest neighbors live, work, learn and play. Through valued partnerships, UChicago Medicine leverages the strengths and talents of existing community assets to strategically address chronic conditions and other complex health needs on Chicago's historic South Side.

Urban Health Initiative

Through the Urban Health Initiative, UChicago Medicine fosters and promotes collaborative community-based programs and services for residents on the South Side. These efforts are dedicated to creating partnerships and providing information that empowers South Side residents around increasing healthy lifestyles and reducing health disparities. This commitment extends to offering workshops and support groups, providing community-based seminars, and delivering prevention and wellness services.

Promoting Health & Vitality in Our Community

UChicago Medicine is at the forefront of health equity in our South Side communities. In collaboration with our dedicated partners, we offer a variety of benefits to empower community members with broadening access to health and wellness resources.

Chicago's South Side

Located in the Hyde Park neighborhood, UChicago Medicine is an anchor on the South Side. The medical campus is surrounded by neighborhoods experiencing unprecedented levels of growth and redevelopment — Woodlawn, North Kenwood/Oakland and beyond — leading to an ever-broadening network of communities and blurring the borders that once isolated Hyde Park from its neighbors. The results are a progressively richer culture and a shared appreciation for life on the South Side.

Community Benefit

UChicago Medicine believes in the overall health of a community — not just an individual. Health is multifaceted and is determined by more than just the absence of disease. It includes the community’s physical, mental, social and environmental well-being. Under the umbrella of population health, and in alignment with our mission to serve the health needs of the community, UChicago Medicine demonstrates a vested commitment to enhancing health and wellness on Chicago's South Side.

Programs & Services

UChicago Medicine offers and supports a variety of health-focused community programs and services. As these initiatives further improve the quality of life for residents on Chicago's South Side, they also highlight many of the medical center’s valued partnerships within the communities we serve.

Grants & Sponsorships

UChicago Medicine joins forces with community organizations by offering grant and sponsorship opportunities. Through these partnerships, we collaborate with diverse organizations that share our commitment to improving health and wellness on the South Side.

Volunteer

There are numerous opportunities to give back at the University of Chicago Medicine and the University of Chicago Medicine Comer Children's Hospital. Our volunteers are valued members of our team who play instrumental roles in helping us serve our patients and their families.

16th Annual Day of Service & Reflection

In May 2018, UChicago Medicine celebrated its 16th annual Day of Service and Reflection (DOSAR) where employees, residents and their friends and families volunteered to assist South Side organizations with various tasks such as gardening, cleaning and painting.

UChicago Medicine staff, family, and friends gave a shout out, then they were ready to go serve their community. Hundreds of volunteers gathered for the 16th annual Day of Service and Reflection. The event has grown over the years. 32 people signed up for the original Day of Service and Reflection. This year, more than 10 times that number participated.

We get caught up in our work, our day-to-day work, what we do normally. And this is not that. This is giving back to the community in a way that-- it's about being human beings, and serving in a way that's just-- it's not about how you earn your day-to-day pay.

Community gardens, daycare centers, churches, and other South Side agencies were helped.

We need more servant leaders, who you may be a doctor by trade, but you're also a servant. And so to take their hands, and to bring them to work in this corridor in Englewood, you have put a smile not on our faces, but in our hearts.

One organization was the Theace Goldsberry Community House. Their mission includes helping young women in the Englewood community. The house had kitchen cabinets donated, but the cabinets needed staining, and that was accomplished by the UChicago Medicine team.

And as you can see, we have many expert workers over here, who are doing an outstanding job. It looks much better than it did when we started. And this is going to transform the usefulness of this kitchen for the young women who take advantage of the programming here.

Many of the organizations needed help outdoors with planting, weeding, and beautifying. Community gardens are a growing part of the South Side landscape, and are a valuable asset to local residents.

And a lot of our seniors don't have cars to go to the grocery store. So that's a 4 and 1/2 mile walk, round trip walk, to put a bell pepper on their table.

The effort by these volunteers illustrates their work as servant leaders. And the work performed by the agencies who are helped is inspirational. Often, they have to accomplish their mission with limited resources, while having an impact far beyond what their resources should allow.

Once again, we are blessed to be able to have you all come and stand alongside us to show these children that they are special, they are loved, and they do deserve the best.

At the end of the day, volunteers were tired but happy. They know they helped make their community better through their efforts. They also learned something in the process.

I loved it because we went to a lot of different places in the community. And it was real educational because some of these places, you didn't even know that they existed until you came to this event.